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Free Visitor Counters Help Blogging Efforts – Lessons Learned 5
I’m amazed at the amount of visitors a beginning blogger can reach in a short time with minimal posts and little social bookmarking activity. Imagine the visitor traffic you’ll get when blog post and social networking efforts increase!!!
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My free visitor counters show that:
- Popular Blog Hosting Platforms Bring Lots of Visitors! 1962 people visited my combined blogs at WordPress.com and Podbean.com.
- Increasing my Social Bookmark Activity and Memberships will Increase My Web Traffic! See Lesson Learned #1 for my best practices on social networking.
- Poetry is more popular than Pictures. Songs of Love and Dance is in ‘the top 50 Poetry blogs’ on NetworkBlogs, and has 1 comment and 1 subscriber. [264 all-time visitors]
- Home, Welcome, and About are Top pages.
- ‘Public Access USA’ links (Government websites) get clicked more than ‘My Favorite Bloggers’ links.
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Free visitor counters tell a story. . . People visit my site because:
- HOST written blog I use a reputable and popular free website host, WordPress.com. where blogs are automatically recommended to other WordPress bloggers based on topics and tags. [1180 all-time visitors March 9, 2011 thru May 31, 2011]
- HOST – audio blog I use a popular Audio blog host, Podbean.com, to showcase my vocal ability. [307 all-time visitors April 15, 2011 thru May 31, 2011]
- SELF PROMOTION PLACEMENT I have well placed links to my other blogs so visitors can check my entire brand, if they choose. [ 83 visitors came from within WordPress platform] / [5 visitors came from Podbean.com]
- TWEET EVERYTHING My posts are automatically Tweeted [13 visitors from Twitter] and Shared on Facebook. [10 visitors from FB]
- PUBLIC PROFILE I have a Gravatar social profile. [81 clicks..source undetermined]
- SOCIAL BOOKMARKING My blogs are on StumbleUpon [4 visitors from SU], Digg, NetworkBlogs.
- BRAND BUILDING I joined the Seeded Buzz. [8 visitors from SB]
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How do I know these 7 things influence my visitor statistics?
When I compiled all the visitor data from my Wordpress.com Site Stats, from my Twitter account using TwitterCounter (it’s free), and from my Podbean.com visitor statistics, a distinct trend appeared.
The result showed highest visitor activity in these seven areas with number one and two having the most influence (hits), number three having the next highest influence and so on.
These free visitor counter tools are a big help because I can use the information to further share my social networking journey.
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More notable data from my free visitor counters:
- Twittercounter: I have 70 Followers; Follow 400; and have tweeted 110 times as @songbirdgold on Twitter.
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Here are some related blogs as referred by WordPress.com
- Blogging Metrics: Getting Quantified (onecoolsitebloggingtips.com)
- How To Fake It Till You Make It In Blogging (dailyblogtips.com)
- Build Loyal Visitors To Your Website Or Blog With The Help Of PunchTab (makeuseof.com)
- Top 5 Favorite List of FREE Blog Websites: (ideasofanoosy.wordpress.com)
- Twitter Launches New Follow Button for Websites (hubspot.com)
- 14 Ways to Integrate Twitter into WordPress (wpjedi.com)
- Top 5 Analytics Tools To Track Your Blog (johnchow.com)
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Want More Social Network Mind-Boggle and songbirdgold (Kerry L Daley)?
- Lesson Learned #3 – Branding Strategy (kerrydaley.wordpress.com)
- Einstein, Emerson, or Alice in Wonderland? vote now (songbirdgold2.wordpress.com)
- Disbeliefs by Kerry L Daley (songbirdgold.wordpress.com)
- Lesson Learned #4 – Content Management (kerrydaley.wordpress.com)
- songbirdgold’s YouTube playlists.
- The Tennessee Waltz …raw songbirdgold on vocals (songbirdgold.podbean.com)
SOCIAL NETWORKING requires DIRECT COMMUNICATION
Social Networking is more than just linking and connecting to social sites.
It’s much, much more than strategically placing those cute little icons on your blog or website.
It requires spending time away from your own internet venture to browse the many blogs and sites being put together by others who are doing the same thing.
And along with viewing and reading others people’s stuff, true social networking requires communicating.
Every time I like an article enough to read it, I click the Like or Recommend button. And if I Like it, I might as well Share it by posting its link to my other networks like Facebook and Twitter and other social bookmarking sites that I have joined.
Liking, Sharing, Bookmarking, and Linking are excellent ways to communicate with your virtual neighbors but the very best way to be all that your brand can be is to LEAVE a comment.
Your comment may very well appear on that blogsite and, if you are reading this right now, you will always remember to add your name, website or blog link, and your Twitter handle. Here’s what my comment signature always looks like:
Kerry L Daley https://kerrydaley.wordpress.com – songbirdgold on Twitter
Commenting on the works of others is a wonderful act of selflessness almost like a Pay It Forward concept.
So find a cool ‘to do list’ application or utilize your PC’s built in calendar and schedule daily, weekly, monthly, or whatever works for you, slots of time to do nothing more than:
Browse, Read, Like, Share, Bookmark, and COMMENT.
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The Social Network Mind Boggle 